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1 it’ll be dead easy
2 it’ll cost
3 it’ll be quite a job
4 it’s feasible
5 it’s achievable, but it’s it
6 there’s no you can do it
7 it’s
8 it’s a order
9 it’ll take
10 it’ll cost an arm and a

f How feasible do you thing the following suggestions are?
Label them or according to the key in Exercise 9e.

1 The machine parts are tricky to paint with brushes, or to
spray. Why don’t we dip them in paint?
2 The steel bar is 100mm in diameter. Couldn’t it be cut by
hand, using a hacksaw?
3 Silver’s a good conductor. Why don’t we use it for wiring,
instead of copper?
4 Instead of putting lead ballast in the helium balloon basket,
why don’t we use water containers?
5 They’ve used the wrong type of fuel in the engine. I’d
suggest stripping the whole thing down and cleaning it by hand.
6 They produce 6,000 units per day and normally do a quality
check on 1 % of them. Couldn’t they check every single product?

g In pairs, give an appropriate response to the suggestions in Exercise 9f using the
expressions in Exercise 9e.

10 In pairs, discuss the feasibility of the following solutions to the problem of forming
accurately positioned holes through the plant walls in New Delhi. Student A, you are
Viktor; Student B, you are Rajesh. Discuss technical issues, cost and timescale, and rank
the solutions in order of feasibility.

1 Is a diamond drill really needed to go through reinforced concrete? Surely you can drill
into concrete with an ordinary hammer-action drill? Wouldn’t that reduce the cost?
2 Couldn’t they make the preformed holes wider than required, so there’s extra tolerance?
Then, once the bolts are fixed, the space around them could be filled with cement.
3 Why not drill the holes in the steel beams on site, instead of pre-drilling them? Then they
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